Exiting a full screen video hides the status bar permanently

[estemendoza]

Exiting a full screen video hides the status bar permanently

[chrisjp]

Hmm, just a quick thought off the top of my head right now... could you try adding the following override method into the view controller that you launch the video from (assuming you don't already have this):

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return NO;
}

I'm not sure if that will fix it or not but it's the only thing I can think of right now. If it doesn't, I will try and look into this more later.

[estemendoza]

I tried that method and it didn't work, sorry

[chrisjp]

Hey, I just tried some basic code to play a video within the demo app of CJPAdController. I have set it up as you described; launch video fullscreen, play video, click the done button or wait until it's finished. Tried it on both the iPhone and iPad 7.1 Simulators, and it seems to work fine - the status bar is still there when returning to the view.

NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"nameOfVideoFile" ofType:@"mov"]];
_moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
_moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleDefault;
_moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
_moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
[self.view addSubview:_moviePlayer.view];
[_moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];
[_moviePlayer play];

If you're using different code can you let me know what it looks like as it seems I'm unable to reproduce this bug at the moment!?

[estemendoza]

I use a lib wrapper for youtube videos called LBYouTubePlayerController that use MPMoviePlayerController internally, so I think it should be the same, but here's the code that I'm using.

Other thing that I didn't mention is that I'm using CJPAdController with a tabbar which has a navigation controller on the views inside the tabbar items.

the .h file

@interface videoController : UIViewController<LBYouTubePlayerControllerDelegate>{
    LBYouTubePlayerController* controller;
}
@property (nonatomic, strong) LBYouTubePlayerController* controller;

the .m file

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{

    if (controller.playbackState != MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying && controller.playbackState != MPMoviePlaybackStatePaused) {
        controller = [[LBYouTubePlayerController alloc] initWithYouTubeURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%@", url_video]] quality:LBYouTubeVideoQualityLarge];
        controller.delegate = self;
        controller.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeNone;
        //controller.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
        CGRect f = self.view.frame;
        controller.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,f.size.width, f.size.height);
        [self.view addSubview:controller.view];
        controller.allowsAirPlay = YES;


    }

}

[estemendoza]

Just a quick update, this issue is only on iOS 7, with iOS 6 the status bar is displayed correctly

[estemendoza]

I temporary fix it by adding the key "View controller-based status bar appearance" = NO on info.plist, but I suppose this is not a permanent fix for the tool

[chrisjp]

Oh I totally forgot about that plist entry and that it's not in there by default. Sorry it completely slipped my mind! But you will need it.
If you set that plist key to YES and then use the prefersStatusBarHidden method that I posted earlier in the view controller it should work. Doing it this way is preferred as you can then easily control which view controllers should have the status bar hidden and which should show it.

If that doesn't work you it may be because it's not getting called automatically for some reason, so you might need to force it to be called with [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate]. Assuming you have a notification sent when the video has finished playing, you should call it then.

Let me know if this works. If it does I'll add a note to the readme about that plist key when making use of those view controller based overrides so other people don't get this problem.

[estemendoza]

Yes, that worked fine! Setting the plist key to YES and calling prefersStatusBarHidden seems to do the trick. Thanks!